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Really nice read. Does anyone know any other good articles or videos about how to write a debugger?

• emmanueloga_ 3y ago
  I was asking this myself this while reading the book "Crafting Interpreters". I posted a few resources I found on an issue about implementing debuggers [1] -- although honestly I still haven't gotten down to read all of them (or to implement a debugger! :-/). -- 1: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/issues/922 https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/issues/92...
  • a1o 3y ago
    Besides breakpoints, any ideas on inspecting the value of a variable in each step, figuring out what variables are in scope, for the case of an interpreter?
    • emmanueloga_ 3y ago
      I’m guessing you’ll have to work with the scopes in the resolver: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/master/java/com/craftinginterpreters/lox/Resolver.java#L12 https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...
      • a1o 3y ago
        Ooh, thanks for this! :)
• mrazomor 3y ago
  I really liked https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/writing-a-linux-debugger-setup/ https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/writing-a-linux-debugger-setup/ I learned a lot.
• wila 3y ago
  How about a book? I like "Advanced Windows Debugging" by Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat.
• Modified3019 3y ago
  Not what you asked for, but if that's your interest you'll probably appreciate https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/ https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/
• jansommer 3y ago
  I wrote this: https://ja.nsommer.dk/articles/x86-debugger-for-windows-and-wine.html https://ja.nsommer.dk/articles/x86-debugger-for-windows-and-... It's a debugger for Windows (and Wine), like the one in the article, written in C. It uses software breakpoints (infinite breakpoints)
• HansLambda 3y ago
  Take a look heere: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/debuggers https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/debuggers It was eye-opening for me.